Operating Systems Comprehensive Exam

Suggested Text: Operating System Concepts , 5th edition, Abraham Silberschatz and Peter Baer Galvin, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1998. See also Errata .
Optional Linux Reference: Understanding the Linux Kernel , Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati, O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 2000.

Offered as the final exam for COMS W4118. See PhD breadth requirements for signup procedure and more information.

Readings

Please see COMS W4118 home page under course materials for suggested reading material for the exam.

Please see COMS W4118 lectures and for a list of topics covered. These topics include:

Operating system structures, interrupts, system calls, micro-kernels, virtual machines
Processes, threads, interprocess communication, CPU scheduling, multi-processor scheduling
Synchronization, critical-section problem, atomic transactions, deadlocks
Memory management, virtual memory, page-replacement algorithms
File systems, directory structure, file system interface
I/O systems, device drivers, kernel I/O subsystem
Secondary-storage structure, disk structure, disk scheduling, disk management
Linux/UNIX design principles, process and memory management, file systems

See COMS W4118 for more information.